Doors open: 7.30pm
First bell: 8.00pm
The show will be concluded before 10.30pm.

Tickets: £10 general admission

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The Ithaca Axis, 2013

"It pulls you in, and claws away at your very core. When the show is over, there is a terrible feeling of loss." - Thou ART

Scripted by Edson Burton
Directed by Nick Young
Production by Kate Hartoch and Netty Miles
Additional material devised by the company
Core cast: Glyn Dilley, Heidi Dorschler, Carlotta Cutrupi, Dominic Wolf, Paul Beech

Braving the wrath of the Gods, Odysseus has returned to the ancient kingdom of Ithaca - now modern day Bristol - to reclaim his seat of power within the Poseidon Foundation. But is he still welcome?  An incredible journey taking place through several, secret locations across Bristol. Part theatre, part adventure, The Ithaca Axis is a modern reinvention of the myth The Odyssey.

Performed over two weeks in April/May 2013, The Ithaca Axis was a fully interactive immersive show that used the city of Bristol as the set. A modern retelling of Homer's epic poem The Odyssey it tells the story of Odysseus' return to Ithaca, expecting to be welcomed as a hero, only to find that all is not how he left it.

A distant wife, a playboy son and a revolutionary daughter all have their own reasons for not wanting him back as he struggles with his own demons from his travels. Utilising ten locations, including Redcliffe Caves, Broadquay Fountains and St Stephen's Church, the show took four seperate audiences on a simultaneous journey that told one story from each of the main characters' perspectives before all coming together for the finale at the Trinity Centre. Power, family, loss and the traumas of going away to war are all themes that play out in The Ithaca Axis.

In order to get an idea of public opinion, I have created a one-question survey, which you can respond to by clicking here: (closes Friday 6 December).

I am happy to hold a meeting about this if people are interested. Please do feel free to circulate this to anyone else whom you think may be interested in having their say. You can find out more about our current wedding offer here.

Thank you in advance for your input!

Emma Harvey, Centre Manager

Back again for another year of skanking shenanigans. This year we are delighted to present...

BABYHEAD

DR MEAKER

GYPSY UNIT

ADAM ELEMENTAL (oldskool set)

FREEDOMIST

more DJ'S TBA

Trinity rounds off a bumper year with massive party featuring some of Bristol's finest artists.

All proceeds from the night will be fed back into our free community events programme.

Tickets On sale Saturday 22nd November: £15 Early Bird / £20 After

Idlehands / Cooshti / Crack Magazine / Afterdark

BABYHEAD: Have recorded a full show of new material ranging from hyper interactive jump up Ska through horn blasting skank rock to bass driven
hip-hopumentory on love, life and politics in these revolutionary times.
It’s their first studio project in 4 years and they are working outside the box. They have been behind the scenes of the burgeoning UK Reggae Hip-Hop revolution for the last 20 years and are now ready to take it to the next level with the stage invasion project and tour.

DR MEAKER: Dr Meaker are one of Bristol's prize assets. Many have been won over by their mind blowing live performances, tight production, quality writing and their ability to effortlessly mix soul with Bass music.

GYPSY UNIT: Pioneers of the Gyp-Hop(tm) sound, and voted best act and worst neighbours to come out of Brynland Avenue in 2010, they are now on a mission to bring bass to your area.

Big shout out to our sponsors for donating prizes for our NYE raffle:

TEMWA / PIE MINISTER / WATERSHED / BOSTON TEA PARTY / BEAST CLOTHING / 51 STOKES CROFT

THE MARIONETTES - 1940's 3 Part Harmony Trio

Dress To Impress.

Doors 7.30pm, Show 8.00pm

Tickets £15.00 from: www.theflamingfeathers.co.uk

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Amanda by Keiran Hurley,

12.57 by AJ Taudevin

Capitalism is Crisis by Tim Price.

A collection of new political plays by preeminent writers Davey Anderson, Clara Brennan, Rob Drummond, Tanika Gupta, Kieran Hurley, Neil LaBute, Tim Price, AJ Taudevin and Mark Thomas have been made available to perform rights free throughout the world during November, a limited period of simultaneous theatrical action. In Bristol performers, directors, creative teams, community groups, venue owners and many others have taken to the task with relish, many of which are to be presented in a mini-festival of events curated by Theatre Uncut Bristol.

This year the public were asked what they thought needed addressing and the many responses were distilled down to this question: “Do we all get more right wing in hard times?”

Theatre Uncut also felt it was important to discuss the imminent referendum on Scottish Independence so a collection of plays within Theatre Uncut 2013 explore that also.

Throughout November, you’ll find Theatre Uncut Bristol unfolding in various guises at Parlour Showrooms (Wed 6 Nov), The Trinity Centre (Thurs 14 Nov), Tobacco Factory (lunchtime; Fri 22 Nov) and Bristol Old Vic (Thurs 28 Nov). Find out what you can see, and how you can put on your own event by visiting: theatreuncutbristol.org

“Theatre Uncut was created to raise debate and galvanise action around political issues that affect all of our lives. We do this by making our plays available to as many people as possible. We feel honored to be working with writers of such high calibre and it thrills me that performances of these powerful short plays will be happening simultaneously across the world, from Scarborough to South Africa. With the continued cuts to public services in the UK, against a landscape of civil unrest and enforced austerity across the world, the need to speak out in resistance is stronger now than ever before.” -- Theatre Uncut Co-Artistic Director Emma Callander

There will be a storyteller, fire performance, bonfire, apple bobbing and fancy dress competition.

Hope to see you there.

Nb. Alcohol Free Event

Funded by The Veolia Environmental Trust the aim of the project was to create a new space for children and young people in the local area, where current play provision is limited.

The play area was designed and built by The Green Play Project who specialise in uniquely exciting playscapes inspired by nature, built to promote creative and interactive play.

Children on the day commented that the new space was "amazing!" and "really fun" and parents also commented how great it was to have something like this in the area. Paul Taylor, Executive Director of the Veolia Environmental Trust joined us on the day and was able to see first hand the benefits of such a resource for the local community. The Lord Mayor spoke of how great it was to have such a facility for the communities of inner-city Bristol and visiting officers from the Avon & Somerset Constabulary also expressed their thanks to the Veolia Trust for investing in the area.

The project was also supported with a grant from the Easton and Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood Partnership.

The play area is open every day and we welcome families to bring their children to come and play in the new space as well as to enjoy the surrounding community garden. There is also a wider programme of capital works taking place, funded by The Big Lottery Fund, which will help to further improve the facilities for the community. Read more about it here.

Our polytunnel has given us the gift of gardening outdoors/indoors, with crops and flowers growing faster and stronger when sheltered from winds, warmed by the sun and protected from frosts. It has also provided us with an ideal space for sowing earlier, harvesting later and hugely improving the growing potential of every square foot of soil in the community garden.

After many years of service, our old polytunnel had seen better days and the GL Hearn team agreed to take on the challenge of replacing the polytunnel plastic as part of their volunteer action day in July.

The team did a wonderful job and this improvement has give our garden groups the opportunity to grow a whole variety of plants and develop their skills further in years to come!

Here's what the team had to say about their day:

“The centre needed help renewing the polytunnel material in the community garden...7 volunteers from the Bristol office took part on what was one of the hottest days of the year so far. The day really tested the strength and endurance of the staff involved! Under the guidance of the centre’s Garden Coordinator, the GL Hearn volunteers carried out weeding, digging a trench, renewing the polytunnel material and then filling in the trench to hold the new material in place. It was extremely satisfying to see the end result of all the hard work and knowing it would make a big difference to the centre.”

Since the repairs, our polytunnel has provided an ideal space for sowing earlier, harvesting later and hugely improving the growing potential of every square foot of soil in the community garden. It has meant that there are more activities throughout the year for volunteers and participants to get involved in, giving people the opportunity to grow a whole variety of plants and develop their skills further for years to come.

Click here if you are interested in having your company's team-building day at Trinity.

Works have begin to create a new loading bay entrance and daytime reception area and works have also started on the upstairs hall space, with the steel framework installed to support a new partition wall. This will create two usable spaces in the upstairs of the venue - a large main hall space with sprung wooden floor and underfloor heating suitable for a range of large community meetings and private functions as well as music, dance and theatre performances, also a second 'community common room' space, with IT terminals and furnishings suitable for any community meeting or learning activity.

gcp Chartered Architects, the lead architect team, have created artist impressions of what the new space will look like, to give an idea of the range activities that could take place following the completion of works in January 2014.

If you are interested in the project and would like to find out more, why not join us for our free open day this Thursday, 17 October from 10am - click here to find out more.

click to view artist impression

Funded by The Veolia Environmental Trust with a grant of £23k and a £2k Community First grant, the open-access play area designed and built by the Green Play Project has been created using high quality, sustainable materials and will include environmentally-conscious features - including a bamboo corner and tunnels which can be used to grow climbing flowers and vegetables - in order to inspire and challenge children and young people.

Bristol West MP, Stephen Williams said:

“The Trinity Development Project is an excellent candidate to receive this funding. The local people are working together to create valuable community green space and a safe children's play area and I would like to say a big thank you to The Veolia Environmental Trust for their help. Old Market is pulsating back into life.  A decade ago hardly anyone lived there but now in 2013 it is home to thousands. I am sure the play area will become a vital part of this new Old Market spirit!”

The Executive Director of The Veolia Environmental Trust, Paul Taylor, said:

“We are pleased to support this project that has created a safe and exciting space for children and families to enjoy outdoor activities and connect with their environment. I hope that the opening event is a success and that the new play area is enjoyed by the community of Bristol for many years to come. Congratulations to all involved.”

The Trinity Centre is internationally renowned for its music events (famous bands like U2, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Clash, Roni Size and others have played there) and locally it provides a much loved centre and resource for community activities. Trinity Community Arts have been awarded a grant of £460,000 towards redeveloping the Centre, which will improve access and increase the space on offer for community activities. The grant is from the Big Lottery Reaching Communities Buildings Fund - aiming to help people and communities most in need through giving funding to improve community buildings where a wide range of community activities take place. The work has also been supported by the Ibstock Cory Environmental Trust who have provided matched funding for the Big Lottery grant to replace the boiler.

Centre Manager, Emma Harvey said:

“The Lottery grant will be used to create a new entrance and reception area and install heating, a sprung wooden floor, lighting and drapes in the upstairs hall space to make it suitable for activities such as conferences, dance and fitness and performance. There will also be a second, smaller, hall space suitable for IT classes, community meetings and smaller functions.”

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Press management on October 17^th, Nigel Locker, Bud Communications nigel@bud.uk.com

Kids treasure hunt / Face Painting / Acoustic music from Mercuriouse Rising

* Solar Panel workshop

* A talk on food politics

* Chiapatti making skill share on tandoori oven

* Pedal powered cinema : short films from 7pm - 8pm

* Pedal powered smoothie maker

* Apple pressing

>>>>>ALCHOL FREE EVENT<<<<<

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ZION TRAIN: Full Live Band
Perch & Dubdadda return to Brizzle, this time with their FULL LIVE SHOW, complete with AN UBER-FUNKY HORN SECTION and a bag full of classics mixed with new choons that you feel you already know

RUN TINGZ CRU: Hot Bristolian D&B Jungalists
Two (or Cru), is usually better then one, a fact not lost on the Southwest’s answer to the new school UK Jungle movement, the Run Tingz Cru. A tip-­‐top, one-­‐stop, Junglist boutique, the Run Tingz camp have every corner of the scene well and truly nailed

GENERAL MISCHIEF: A Dubber World Is Possible
The Worldshift Creative Forum DJs & MCs open this monumental evening with a mega-medley-mix of conscious ska, reggae & dub

Super Early Bird £8 / Early bird £10 from Worldshift Media & Babylon

plus booking fee...more on the door!